Author: Larry Brilliant
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062049275
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when love, compassion and determination meet the right circumstances to effect positive change, is the kind that keeps hope and the sense of possibility alive. After sitting at the feet of Martin Luther King at the University of Michigan in 1963, Larry Brilliant was swept up into the civil rights movement, marching and protesting across America and Europe. As a radical young doctor he followed the hippie trail from London over the Khyber Pass with his wife Girija, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm commune to India. There, he found himself in a Himalayan ashram wondering whether he had stumbled into a cult. Instead, one of India’s greatest spiritual teachers, Neem Karoli Baba, opened Larry’s heart and told him his destiny was to work for the World Health Organization to help eradicate killer smallpox. He would never have believed he would become a key player in eliminating a 10,000-year-old disease that killed more than half a billion people in the 20th century alone. Brilliant’s unlikely trajectory, chronicled in Sometimes Brilliant, has brought him into close proximity with political leaders, spiritual masters, cultural heroes, and titans of technology around the world—from the Grateful Dead to Mikhail Gorbachev, from Ram Dass, the Dalai Lama, Lama Govinda, and Karmapa to Steve Jobs and the founders of Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Microsoft and eBay and Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama. Anchored by the engrossing account of the heroic efforts of the extraordinary people involved in smallpox eradication in India, this is a riveting and fascinating epidemiological adventure, an honest reckoning of an entire generation, and a deeply moving spiritual memoir. It is a testament to faith, love, service, and what it means to engage with life’s most important questions in pursuit of a better, more brilliant existence.
Author: Roger Horberry
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 0273727354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Jeff Sharlet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA’s Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin’s Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book “incantatory,” the voice “prophetic,” in “James Agee’s tradition of looking at the reality of American lives.” Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers—night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins—This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?
Author: Andy Cope
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 085708500X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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From the authors of the bestselling The Art of Being Brilliant We all have good days and bad days. Some days we’re on form, others we can’t really be bothered and feel a little lack lustre. No one enjoys those slump days – so let’s do away with them! The wonderful, uplifting and funny authors of the bestselling The Art of Being Brilliant are here to show us how to get motivated, get positive and get happy, and, most importantly, how to be all three consistently. Every single day. Using a solid understanding of positive psychology, but with clear visual illustrations, simple explanations and a bit of funny stuff, Be Brilliant Everyday shows us how to foster some serious positivity and mental agility and transform our lives. The book is crammed with practical tips to help us ditch those down days and flourish every single day. How to live and breathe positivity everyday Learn to be truly happy, confident and more effective Become a great example to others and inspire those around you How to cope and feel brilliant in a busy, demanding world
Author: Tom Bird
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292139021
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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What do brilliant salespeople know, do and say that makes them so successful? The world has changed, and businesses need brilliant salespeople not just to survive but to thrive. The modern buyer has become even more sophisticated, intolerant and price sensitive. Today’s brilliant salespeople need to respond and not just react. This updated edition of the best-selling book combines a focus on the core principles, skills and behaviours of brilliant salespeople as well as new content to meet today’s challenges, including: • How to influence more people more of the time • Discovering what your customer really wants • How to build relationships easily and effortlessly • How to sell authentically • Priorities in building your personal brand • The key principles and ‘how tos’ of social selling • Influencing in today’s hybrid world – and much, much more. If you apply what you learn in this new fully updated edition you will be able to differentiate yourself as well as improve your sales results.
Author: David Winner
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590208021
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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A look at the history of soccer’s development in the Netherlands and how it reflects the history of the nation itself. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space and a people whose unique conception of it has led to the most enduring arts, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely cerebral form of soccer?Total Football?that led in 1974 to a World Cup finals match with arch-rival Germany, and more recently to a devastating loss against Spain in 2010. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delight observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shared ancestry with Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” and maybe even with Gouda cheese. “Easily the best book on soccer I have read in a long while. . . . Every American following the World Cup ought to read it.” —Columbus Dispatch “One of those strangely informative books that will . . . entertain those who have little interest in either soccer or the Netherlands.” —The Economist “Wry, obsessional, digressive, deep. . . . This is football as art, metaphor, and cultural signifier.” —The Guardian “A fascinating exploration of how national politics can be transported into the sports arena.” —Chicago Tribune “A brilliant, thorough, utterly mad book, the product of the most admirable sort of enthusiasm: total. You like soccer, you don’t like soccer, it doesn’t matter. If you think of yourself as a serious fan, if you want to continue on the path towards enlightenment and take your devotion to another level, you’d best check out the standard being set here.” — ESPN.com
Author: Rachel Mulvey
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292016531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Author: Stephen Briers
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 0273778498
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivers powerful tools that can help you dramatically improve your life. This is the most useful and practical guide to CBT available. Written by highly regarded Clinical Psychologist Dr Stephen Briers, it clearly explains how CBT works, giving you plenty of exercises to help put the theory into practice and illustrate the effectiveness through stories from people who have used CBT to turn their lives around. Clear, concise and highly readable. Brilliant Outcomes: - Understand what CBT is, its methods and models - Put CBT to work to improve your mind and your life - Build practical, step-by-step strategies for tackling any problem
Author: STEPHANIE CLAUSSEN
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619116812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Add this collection of 21 enchanting arrangements (including "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella," and "The Holly and the Ivy")to your Christmas gig bag. These renditions shine as solos but have the richnessto cut through background chatter at a holiday party. Evoking an ancient rather than modern setting, they contain variations that intermediate through advanced harpists will find both intricate and satisfying. The entire book can be played cover-to-cover in fifty-five minutes. Suitable for lever harps with 33 strings or more. Contains dynamics, chords, and some fingering suggestions.
Author: Andy Cope
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0857089862
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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The bestselling book on being brilliant, now in an all new edition In a world where there's a lot of talk about ‘living your best life’ and being your ‘best self’, The Art of Being Brilliant actually shows you how. From an author who is an expert in the science of happiness and positive psychology, this book is fun, non-patronising, and grounded in proven principles and practices. Since the publication of the first edition, this book has filled readers to the brim with happiness, positivity, wellbeing and, most importantly, success! This new edition has been updated to address modern issues such as screen time, social media, anxiety, resilience and relationships. Dr Andy Cope brings the knowhow, his writing partner Andy Whittaker provides the humour, and award-winning illustrator Amy Bradley brings this new edition to life. This book is crammed full of good advice, instructive case studies, inspiring quotes, and important questions to make you think about your work, relationships, and life. It shows you that success and happiness aren't about dramatic change—they're about finding out what really works for you and doing more of it! Gain inspiration through rich illustrations, inspiring quotes, and a truly fun read Rock up in life as your best self Learn to foster positivity and bring about success in every aspect of your life Find out how academic knowledge from psychology and beyond can propel you forward The Art of Being Brilliant is THE go-to book to help you feel brilliant.
